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calimary

(81,264 posts)
17. That's why I'm still upset about losing Jay Inslee as a candidate.
Tue Aug 27, 2019, 11:50 AM
Aug 2019

This won’t end well.

But maybe it will force population control on us whether we want it or not. The human death rate will rise. Disturbingly so.

Shit - I was reading about some GOP Congressman Sean Duffy, who just resigned to spend more time with his family. And his wife, who’s having complications with her NINTH pregnancy. There’s a NINTH baby on the way???? He’s got EIGHT kids already and Number NINE is in the works now? Um ... when does this asshole plan to stop? If ever? Has he ever heard of ZPG (Zero Population Growth)? How does he plan to provide for them? Will his unfortunate wife die too soon because she’s literally been fucked to death?

I say that, because I personally know a family to whom that happened. They were NOT wealthy. Beleaguered wife died during her eleventh pregnancy. Her ELEVENTH!!! Her poor body just finally gave out. She was buried with the fetus having been removed from her body and actually placed in her arms in her casket. And dad, who claimed it was his “heritage” to keep seeding all those babies no matter what, and keeping his wife crankin’ ‘em out whether her body could take it or not, was left with ten motherless kids to deal with and try to raise on his own.

I could not help feeling outraged. Yes, I know it’s really none of my business and it’s not my place to judge or lecture. And we did our best to help that family in multiple ways. But Hell, I almost died giving birth to TWO. It was so rough on my body that my husband was first to declare that we were NOT having any more. And I heartily agreed.

That poor woman! Somebody’s need to prove his so-called “manhood” actually killed his life-partner and left all those kids without a mother - some of them still quite little (when a child needs Mommy most intensely). Honestly, how’d that work out for ya, dude?

I apologize for sounding insensitive. But we’re at seven BILLION+ now, and our planet CANNOT sustain such extremes of human overpopulation. There won’t be enough room, enough housing, enough food! Enough clean drinkable water! Enough sanitation services and health services, and on and on and on. The migration of desperate people heading north to more livable (but dwindling) temperate zones (what remains of them anyway) will only multiply, and you know how well that goes over here with certain groups of voters already. This is NOT sustainable! Not for long, anyway. We’re killing our planet. AND ourselves.

And it SURE AS HELL isn’t “pro-life.”

Chart in this article... Mike 03 Aug 2019 #1
Interesting about the map. I think you are right bronxiteforever Aug 2019 #4
Yes, it is Stryst Aug 2019 #11
And outside arid areas, it's the wet-bulb temperature dalton99a Aug 2019 #2
That is pretty frightening stuff. bronxiteforever Aug 2019 #5
Yeah, wet-bulb predictions are terrifying The_jackalope Aug 2019 #7
yep wet bulb means more than kozar Aug 2019 #8
Parts of the world will BOIL, as others will FREEZE.... ProudMNDemocrat Aug 2019 #3
5.4 F? The long term rise we have locked in now is about 9.5 F (5.5 C) The_jackalope Aug 2019 #6
We can avoid apocalyptic suffering by building a million carbon capture machines at $30,000 each. ancianita Aug 2019 #16
causing some places to cool off as my state that never did see a 90 deg temp this summer yaesu Aug 2019 #9
Yes the species will survive bucolic_frolic Aug 2019 #10
Humans are going find out what the late Cretaceous was like. roamer65 Aug 2019 #12
The very reason that climate change MUST be the primary concern of any D, especially the president. in2herbs Aug 2019 #13
That's why I'm still upset about losing Jay Inslee as a candidate. calimary Aug 2019 #17
I'd like to see Inslee at the top of an energy post, say Sec of Energy?? Maybe Trump and R's gag in2herbs Aug 2019 #21
This is one of the many reasons we are moving out of Florida shortly. Oppaloopa Aug 2019 #14
Sad but smart. Florida doesn't do well with rising seas too. bronxiteforever Aug 2019 #19
Can we? Yes as other mammals have. We would of course have to change some things such as how and cstanleytech Aug 2019 #15
Evolve or die. SCVDem Aug 2019 #18
More roads, more parking lots, more centralized living -- LiberalFighter Aug 2019 #20
In hindsight, this may be seen as a period of evolutionary punctuated equilibrium Politicub Aug 2019 #22
The SouthWest will soon be unlivable Mountain Mule Aug 2019 #23
+1000 bronxiteforever Aug 2019 #24
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